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= Free Software Melbourne committee meet-up =

Attending
 * Adam B.
 * Ben F.
 * Ben S.
 * Lillian R.
Apologies
 * Andrew

== Software Freedom Day 2014-09-20 (Saturday) ==
 * Electron Workshop in North Melbourne
     Mick Jaffen

Allow for 25–50 attendees

 * Events:
   * Installfest
     in a separate corner; allow people to wander to other events simultaneously
   * Arduino demo
   * Speaker presentations
     * Strive for gender balance
     * Privacy and freedom
     * Adam B.: find workmate to talk about email encryption
     * Maia S.: Open Knowledge Foundation (ref. Lilly)
     * Jacinta R.
     * Dale D.: BitCoin
   * Video
     Suggestions include:
     * “Indie Game: The Movie”? (I don't think there's any free software in there from memory -Adam)
     * “Patent Absurdity” (re. Bilski patent case) http://patentabsurdity.com/
     * Revolution OS
     * Hope94
     * The FreeBSD Story
     Lev apparently has the last three. I don't know what the last two are about - DuckDuckGo and Google have failed me, but Lev used them in previous years.
     * Blender demos?
     * A recorded RMS talk?

Need:
 * Swag — shirts / stickers/ badges?
 * Catering — provider, budget
 * Sponsorship:*
   * Ben F.: ask VPAC
   * Adam: ask SitePoint
   * Ben S.: Free Software Queensland, Red Hat?
   * Best to have an incorporated entity for sponsors to coordinate with
     * L.U.V.wi Bmotion:
   * Lilly: spot on 3RRR Byte Into It
   * Open Knowledge Foundation
 * Leaflet with list of free software
 * ISO images
 * DHCP/Switch/Samba server setup

Ben F.: hand back FSM secretary to Ben S.
 * likely unavailable during late August – September 2014

Ben S.:
 * To update http://www.sfd.org.au/ (point to a wiki or have Lilly provide text).
 * Setup a SFD mail list

Adam B.:
 * To setup a Samba/DHCP server on an EeePC.
 * Put together a list of free software on a leaflet
 * Download a bunch of GNU/Linux distros


== August meet-up ==

=== Task list ===

Ben S.:
  * Check with Andrea of the Open Innovation Project Network about giving a talk around Copyright/Patent/Trademark or what Andrea does at the OIPN.
  * Ask Les Kitchen if he would like to finish his talk about how he got into free software.

=== Thoughts ===

  * Provide a 5 minute notice before a meeting needs to end so as to not run overtime.

=== Meet-up ===

Hopefully a talk by Andrea

Ask for Software Freedom Day volunteers
  * Talks
  * Ideas

Les Kitchen/Brian May to complete their talk about how they got into free software.

A talk on Password Managers, depending on how we go for time with the above (if Andrea can make it).

Gnews (last)
  * We used ownCloud 7 collaborative document editing functionality (which was basically functional, but not ideal)

== Korean for dinner ==